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GPBlog's Top 50 drivers in 50 days - #29 - John Surtees
Good evening and welcome back to GPBlog.com’s countdown of our top 50 F1 drivers of all time! We’re into the 20’s now so F1 is closer than it has been for a long time, with only four weeks until qualifying in Australia! Yesterday we went back in time for Britain’s first F1 champion, Mike Hawthorn, and today we’re staying with F1’s early days and looking at another Brit, John Surtees. John Surtees is the holder of a very niche record that is unlikely to be beaten, having become a motorcycle and F1 world champion. Nobody has done that before, or since, and with the two sports both so specialised, it’s hard to see his feat being matched. Surtees had...
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